GigE Peering Router

Mon Oct 10 09:01:06 UTC 2005

On Oct 10, 2005, at 2:53 AM, James Ashton wrote:

>  I would run from the 7206+NPE-G1 in this capacity. We have not had  
> luck
> actually getting a gig worth of traffic flowing through them. Great
> small site router, but not much on the throughput side at all.

We are currently pushing 950+ Mbps through several 7301s.  (The 7301  
is essentially an NPE-G1 in a box by itself.)

This traffic is heavily outbound.  Several NAPs have the router, some  
with 100+ peers.  We do not have a lot of ACLs or other CPU-eating  
stuff in the config.

-- 
TTFN,
patrick

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> Hello,
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> I was looking for some opinions on Cisco vs. Foundry (specifically
> Cisco's NPE-G1 vs a NetIron 4802). The application is mainly content
> delivery - outbound heavy traffic with an emphasis on quality of
> delivery.
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> Basically I'm looking at the 4802 because we're able to provision GigE
> for all the providers, so we don't really need an architecture that  
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> support OC-type interfaces. The size is also attractive for some of  
> our
> smaller PoPs.
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> I'm also intereted in failover/hot-standby capabilities on the Foundry
> as we have had much experience with them.
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> Best,
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> Lance
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